Frieze LA standout ceramics
Frieze Los Angeles in Santa Monica highlighted ceramic sculptures by Sharif Farrag that mix California Funk with Middle Eastern and North African influences — a notable moment for LA’s contemporary craft scene The Corsair.
Jeffrey Deitch [presented] (deitch.com) a solo booth of Sharif Farrag’s work at Frieze Los Angeles (Booth B26) during the fair’s Feb. 26–Mar. 1, 2026 run. The MAC3 acquisition fund — a joint initiative of the Hammer Museum, LACMA and MOCA — [acquired] (frieze.com) a work by Farrag at Frieze LA 2026 as part of its second-year purchases supported by Jarl and Pamela Mohn. One of the pieces shown, Farrag’s Bridge (2025), is described as glazed ceramic measuring 51 × 102 × 19 cm and [draws] (frieze.com) on Italian wall-relief motifs while referencing Los Angeles and New York iconography. Farrag’s appearance at Frieze followed his New York solo Sharif Farrag: Hybrid Moments, on view at Jeffrey Deitch from March 8–April 19, 2025, a show [documented] (ceramicsnow.org) as his first major New York solo with the gallery. Catalogues and foundation profiles list Farrag as born May 1993 in Reseda, CA, a 2024 Joan Mitchell Fellow [profiled] (joanmitchellfoundation.org) who holds a BFA from USC (2018) and an MFA from UCLA (2023). (deitch.com) Frieze Los Angeles 2026 took place at the Santa Monica Airport and [featured] (whitehotmagazine.com) roughly 95 galleries from 22 countries, attracting more than 32,000 visitors and representatives from about 160 museums and institutions.
